Danica Patrick Quotes

When I showed up to drive for Dale in '01 it was a brand new team.

My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.

I always like my chances at Daytona.

My dad certainly has an eye for talent and he did something right getting his sons to the top of NASCAR.

The chances of me getting into the Hall of Fame as a racer are slim to none. But as an owner I have a chance to do something special, mostly because I learned a lot of secrets from Dale.

I've enjoyed coming to Talladega since 2008 when I was in the ARCA Series.

I don't know anyone who's started more consecutive Daytona 500s than me.

I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

I want to be up front racing.

I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

You can always figure if it's a Busch race then I'm going to be at the front.

I love Daytona and Talladega. I'd like to think maybe I could quit one day running all the races and just run a few that I like.

I've always been an Earnhardt family fan.

I've been fortunate enough that in every form of motor sports in which I've competed, we've won.

My favorite was Jeff Gordon. I just followed him growing up because I started watching racing when he came on the scene.

I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.

When someone tells me they've never been to a race, I tell them that the first one they should go to is Bristol, Tennesee. The shape of the track, the energy, and excitement under the lights is similar to what you might get at a stick-and-ball game in college football or the NFL.

Growing up, I was always a big fan of Jeff Gordon.

NAPA has been with me from winning two Daytona 500s, to missing races with a new start-up team, and back to victory lane again. The relationship grew far past that of just a sponsor, but more of a partner and a friend.